Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding Kindle books to BibDesk records
Dear Derick, Thanks for this useful hint. However, I believe your instructions contain errors. At least the Content Folder by default seems to be another one (you probably changed yours via the preferences or have a different history of the application on your system). AFAIK the default location is: - ~/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/ but you can change it to any other location via the preferences. Moreover, it seems quite important to use only a Finder alias, and not a symbolic link or BibDesk will remove the .azw from the Kindle repository if you have Auto File active. Regards, Andreas On 20/Jan/2012, at 19:25 , Derick Fay wrote: Here's something I just figured out. I am in the habit of using BibDesk as an organizer / file manager for all of my scholarly reading these days, and I have some books on Kindle for the Mac that I wanted to be able to launch from BibDesk. Kindle books are stored in ~/Documents/My Kindle Content but the filenames are meaningless. So the solution I found was 1) navigate to ~/Documents/My Kindle Content 2) open a .azw file - this will launch Kindle for Mac and open the book so you can see which book it is 3) (in the Finder) make an alias for the .azw file you just opened, with a recognizable name 4) add the alias to the appropriate BibDesk record. This will work - allowing launching of the Kindle book from within BibDesk - even if Autofile is on. I didn't try it, but I assume that if one just Autofiled the .azw files, Kindle for Mac would have problems since they'd no longer be in the expected location. It's a bit of a pain at first, if you have a lot of books, but unless Amazon makes book titles visible through Applescript (fat chance!) I don't see a way it could be automated. --Derick -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding Kindle books to BibDesk records
On Jan 25, 2012, at 12:22, Fischlin Andreas wrote: Dear Derick, Thanks for this useful hint. However, I believe your instructions contain errors. At least the Content Folder by default seems to be another one (you probably changed yours via the preferences or have a different history of the application on your system). AFAIK the default location is: - ~/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/ but you can change it to any other location via the preferences. Moreover, it seems quite important to use only a Finder alias, and not a symbolic link or BibDesk will remove the .azw from the Kindle repository if you have Auto File active. Regards, Andreas This is not correct, BibDesk autofiles both Finder alias files and symlink files, not their target files. On 20/Jan/2012, at 19:25 , Derick Fay wrote: Here's something I just figured out. I am in the habit of using BibDesk as an organizer / file manager for all of my scholarly reading these days, and I have some books on Kindle for the Mac that I wanted to be able to launch from BibDesk. Kindle books are stored in ~/Documents/My Kindle Content but the filenames are meaningless. So the solution I found was 1) navigate to ~/Documents/My Kindle Content 2) open a .azw file - this will launch Kindle for Mac and open the book so you can see which book it is 3) (in the Finder) make an alias for the .azw file you just opened, with a recognizable name 4) add the alias to the appropriate BibDesk record. This will work - allowing launching of the Kindle book from within BibDesk - even if Autofile is on. I didn't try it, but I assume that if one just Autofiled the .azw files, Kindle for Mac would have problems since they'd no longer be in the expected location. It's a bit of a pain at first, if you have a lot of books, but unless Amazon makes book titles visible through Applescript (fat chance!) I don't see a way it could be automated. --Derick I don't have a Kindle, so I don't know how this works. Does it just look what files are there in a given location, or does it maintain a database of available files? But you're probably right that autofile of the original .azw files would screw things up. One thing you could do is to do autofile manually, or do the autofiling in a script hook instead so you can manage it more to your liking (e.g. replace by a link automatically, or not to file when it's in a certain directory). Christiaan -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding Kindle books to BibDesk records
I'm using Kindle for Mac 1.8.1 (the latest) with a default installation, my Kindle books are in ~/Documents/My Kindle Content . A little trial and error reveals that Kindle for Mac just looks for the files that are in the default directory. If you move a file out, KfM won't display it in your Library. But you can rename them and they are still recognized. My collection of Kindle books that I want to access via BibDesk is small enough that I'm going to stick with the working manual system from my prior email. cheers Derick On Jan 25, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 12:22, Fischlin Andreas wrote: Dear Derick, Thanks for this useful hint. However, I believe your instructions contain errors. At least the Content Folder by default seems to be another one (you probably changed yours via the preferences or have a different history of the application on your system). AFAIK the default location is: - ~/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/ but you can change it to any other location via the preferences. Moreover, it seems quite important to use only a Finder alias, and not a symbolic link or BibDesk will remove the .azw from the Kindle repository if you have Auto File active. Regards, Andreas This is not correct, BibDesk autofiles both Finder alias files and symlink files, not their target files. On 20/Jan/2012, at 19:25 , Derick Fay wrote: Here's something I just figured out. I am in the habit of using BibDesk as an organizer / file manager for all of my scholarly reading these days, and I have some books on Kindle for the Mac that I wanted to be able to launch from BibDesk. Kindle books are stored in ~/Documents/My Kindle Content but the filenames are meaningless. So the solution I found was 1) navigate to ~/Documents/My Kindle Content 2) open a .azw file - this will launch Kindle for Mac and open the book so you can see which book it is 3) (in the Finder) make an alias for the .azw file you just opened, with a recognizable name 4) add the alias to the appropriate BibDesk record. This will work - allowing launching of the Kindle book from within BibDesk - even if Autofile is on. I didn't try it, but I assume that if one just Autofiled the .azw files, Kindle for Mac would have problems since they'd no longer be in the expected location. It's a bit of a pain at first, if you have a lot of books, but unless Amazon makes book titles visible through Applescript (fat chance!) I don't see a way it could be automated. --Derick I don't have a Kindle, so I don't know how this works. Does it just look what files are there in a given location, or does it maintain a database of available files? But you're probably right that autofile of the original .azw files would screw things up. One thing you could do is to do autofile manually, or do the autofiling in a script hook instead so you can manage it more to your liking (e.g. replace by a link automatically, or not to file when it's in a certain directory). Christiaan -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users Derick A. Fay, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology University of California, Riverside, USA http://faculty.ucr.edu/~derickf/ -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d___ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
[Bibdesk-users] Release
Hi all Judging by the absence of reports of problems on the users list, I take it that there are no objections to a new release. Right? Best Adam -- Adam M. Goldstein PhD, MSLIS -- z_california...@shiftingbalance.org http://www.shiftingbalance.org http://www.twitter.com/shiftingbalance -- http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSNsearch_value=180621 -- Associate Editor Reviews Editor Evolution: Education Outreach http://www.springer.com/life+sci/journal/12052 -- Spellman 205 (914) 637-2717 (msg) -- Dept of Philosophy Iona College 715 North Avenue New Rochelle NY 10801 http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d___ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
